get rid of slacking

Being too hungry when waking up and having no food nearby makes me stay in bed. => Have some basic food at bed. An apple or something like that.

Having a poor circulation also keeps me in the bed. => Have a well circulation. Go out, walk the streets, breathe nature. Staying in bed does not help, although it feels as if it did.

Having a headache when waking up, keeps me in bed. Better solution: Make sure you drink enough, so headaches will be seldom.

Having no clue of what to do just after getting up directs me back to the bed. => Always have an overview of what’s current, what’s open, what’s to be done.

In a sentence: Drink enough, eat enough, be healthy, and have a clue of what’s next. Maybe that’s yet everything needed to get things done, my life mastered.

Now is the time to tidy everything up, work life and real life.

I’d like to live my dreams, not stay blocked from them because of debts or job.

“Just let me check my e-mail… just let me check whether there’s some tech news… just let me see what’s new on my blog stats…” – to allow that seems to tend to distract me. For example, I just had the look into the blog stats, found one of my postings commented on on Reddit and instantly became curious about that comment. Which made me surf, quickly loose track of getting done what I’d like to get done today.

Maybe, the better chance/the chance to better this, optimize, would be to note down every concern I touched, which of them is ‘a door opened’ – and then make ‘appointments’ with myself to check what’s going on with these doors or whether or not I can close them again. In other words make some explicit time to check for them.

Hm, and what’d happen if I get an e-mail that gets scares out of me, thus disturbs me?

Hm.

this blog posting on the author’s Getting Things Done strugglings look familiar. – Anyways, because of his posts, now I can skip to mention that scary things make me go into slacking mode.

Also, going into that mode happens once I [unconsciously] decide to wait some event to happen – like the scary thing become reality. – Just had this case these days, twice. Once because of a scary event that might happen, and another time because a job promise. Both made me slack; and both slacking periods blended into each another, making one big slacking phase. Really bad.
 

What can I do about it?

• As yet figured out, to do the hard things first, I could priorize the scary ones too.
• Plus I must avoid to decide to wait.

(Since, in the 90s, I decided to stop to wait for each upcoming big software update of a certain operating system, I took chances to avoid to wait for such event. However, apparently the habit to go into an awaiting mode is still part of my way. Really, I must go rid of that!)

slacking also might be: to idle..wait for an event to happen, wait for anyone else making their turn.

I had that twice, yesterday: First, without thinking I accepted a guy’s demand to call back later. That costed me to reorganize my afternoon and to swap out tasks that would have been important to be done. Which by that reorganization I didn’t get done, despite they are important (!).

Second, I got a job offer, which left me confused and especially confused me about whether or not to quit my efforts for getting a job at once. I was a rather lot beside myself with joy, which made me want to leave context, leave my home at once, go out and meet friends. (Which, after an extended phone call to a mate, I buried.)

Anyways, to get rid of slacking, I might need to get over such idle-demanding situations quickly. Or at least identify them quickly//quickly recognize they are there/have just happened and then get an idea whether to come over them or not, and if so, how to overcome them, and whether and, if so, then also how to overcome them quickly. Whereby all such pondering might outrun the initial idle time; which would not very productive

got another few calls done I had a slight fear of – two potential future employers, one on a money issue

The rule of thumb to decide about which task to tackle next by selecting that one I’m fearing most does not suffice: If there is no task left I really fear, I’d run out of tasks; but there might remain plenty I simply would find annoying.

So, to extend the rule of thumb: If there’s no task left I fear, pick that one I find most annoying.

fixed that another task I was fearing. – Should’ve been a phone call, but I didn’t get anyone. So I wrote a mail alternatively. Was done quickly

tackled two of the big annoyments already, going to go after another task now – one I’m in some kind of fear of.

Set up a [internal] wiki page that lists tasks; for picking what to tackle next, I’m trying the rule of thumb: What’s the thing I’m fearing most?

a list of not so friendly things to do – demanding tasks to tackle – would de-motivate me, therefore I don’t make such a list.

But once one the way, just like on overcoming dust and dirt, I might notice other tasks to tackle and [to] overcome. I think, to notice them – then: chances to gather even more success – along the way would not de-motivate that lot as if I’d heap them up initially. – Doing it initially would, well, demotivate me, instantly: To many things to master, at once.

I long for being in society/community. I could reward me by being together with friends (and friends-to-be).

How to get into community with friends? Either I surf others parties (not desired) or I just invite my friends to me (maybe with an suggestion to them to bring one friend with them if they’d like, so I’d meet even more people – and I love to make new friends, meet new people –). Which implicitly might serve my goal to become part of a life[-long] team.

This might positively end in frequent parties at my home – or, to soften that out for my neighbours [who’d to stand the noise we might make], frequent going out.